Funcom and Eidos Announce Massive Evolution Plans for Age of Conan

Link:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/881/881553p1.html

Interesting...

"PvP Evolved - To the Death
The great combat system in Age of Conan has taken MMO fighting to a new level of fun, and Player versus Player (PvP) combat plays a major part. As a result, a massive new PvP update is planned for late June. Aptly called "To the death," this update brings more consequence and reward to PvP players, and an important part of it is the Fugitive system. The more lower level players you kill, the easier it is for others to hunt you down. In addition, ten PvP levels with additional ranks will be introduced, as well as specific gear and weapons for PvP.

Guild Alliance Warfare
Preproduction has started on a MASSIVE free update which will come later this year. Currently titled "Kingship!", large clusters of guilds will be able to form alliances, and rule and conquer on a massive scale. Everyone in a guild alliance will play a part in this system, and together they can even erect unique looking alliance Battlekeeps. The alliances can also fight over, and build, culture-specific "wonders of the world", with a direct link to higher powers! As part of the system Funcom will also facilitate larger amounts of players in massive battles.
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sounds like they know they don't have enough content and are going to try and give info on stuff that won't be out for months in order to save their sub base ... whitey_rolls

Sounds more like rewarding the player and saying "Hey, we tested this before the games release and it seems to be coming along. Might as well inform the players so they have something to look forward"

Hell, Eve online releases updates such as this every 6 months and they are having no issues with holding their playerbase. Hell, the playerbase is even growing in Eve due to such additions.

It seems like following the WoW steps.
There was no Arenas or PvP ranks when WoW, came out, and later on it was added.Creative

How long did it take WoW to add on Pvp stuff?

It seems like following the WoW steps.
There was no Arenas or PvP ranks when WoW, came out, and later on it was added.Creative

Ah yes, but a free update hopefully means that they might not be charging for future updates, like EVE. IMO, and not because I like reletively free stuff, although I do, this is the better business model, you get people to keep coming back with new content.